Branding Secrets: How to 10X Your Business Impact | Jay Monopoly DSH #897

Branding is the most important part, man.

And you need it because people rip the clips, and then if you don't have any branding, no one knows it's your show.

It's crazy because I'm always talking about branding and the power of branding.

So if you have great marketing, if you say you have great marketing, you don't need a great sales guy because the marketing takes care of a lot of it.

But if you have great branding, you don't even need great marketing.

Right.

Branding is everything, man.

All right, guys, out here in Miami with Jay Monopoly.

Thanks for coming on, man.

Appreciate you, my brother.

Long time coming.

Absolutely.

you look like miami with your fit yeah that's what i was going for bro that's what i was going for so you're from new york originally from new york been out in miami for the last four years bro but uh it's hard to leave miami man everything's over here bro i love it over here love it so new york or miami i pick miami all day wow miami all day no question over new york city over new york city damn no question because the weather the weather the women you name it yeah i did hear the woman yeah if you like latinas out here is the spot to be yeah yeah what do you like i i'm with the latinas

perfect oh he's cuffed up i can't ask him those questions yeah seven years in man i love it i love it what about you you single out here it's complicated

that's what i hear every time i talk to a guy in miami yeah it's complicated man um when you moved here though you started doing much better in business-wise

yeah man um i was already i've lived everywhere man so i lived in la before i've lived in la i've lived in houston san diego new york tampa orlando you're young for all these cities i was in the military for a little bit so i moved around a lot but But

I moved here straight from Tampa.

I think I lived in Tampa before I moved to Miami.

And the minute I got to Miami, man, it's crazy.

It felt like my business just took off.

And it wasn't because I was doing anything different.

It was because everyone that I needed was here.

Like there was somebody who I needed for whatever, whatever business I was doing, I needed.

And I met him here.

It was crazy.

I feel that.

And you're in crypto.

Like, so am I.

And a lot of crypto people out here.

Yeah.

And I moved here 2020.

So you already know that was when like everything was really started to boom in crypto so dude made a i made a ton of money living here bro miami was like the capital of the world in crypto at that year yeah that year a lot of people don't remember this but

if you had money that year yeah i remember this yeah i was making crypto money this year you used to be able to go to the club and pay in crypto yeah and all the yachts used to be able to pay in crypto and stuff like that it was people were buying watches and crypto houses and crypto that would have time to be alive it's coming back i think another bull run is due soon that's what everybody keeps saying man i'm i'm i'm sitting tight waiting for for it.

This week's been rough.

I wouldn't look at your portfolio right now.

I'm waiting for it.

It's down like 20% this week.

But what else do you do?

I know you got some real estate too, right?

Man, so I really started off with real estate.

I started off wholesaling properties.

You know what wholesalers?

You basically flip it.

Yeah, so flipping paper.

I started off wholesaling, man.

I made my first seven figures wholesale in properties.

And then in 2020, everything went to shit.

Everything went to complete shit because I had to close down my office.

I had 15 employees in the office.

They forced me to close it down.

And I started to learn how to make money online from there.

So I dropped a wholesaling course at that time.

And I think I made

a little over $900,000 with that course.

Wow.

But I did that in nine months.

Right.

When no employees, no overhead, no nothing.

Yeah.

When the most I ever made wholesaling was 1.1 million.

And I had employees overhead, all of that.

So I kind of learned the power of making money online and building a strong brand for yourself.

So my philosophy nowadays is, you know, make this online money, right?

Cause we make a bunch of online money, digital assets, right?

But I use all that online money to buy real life stuff, right?

I'll make online money to buy real life stuff like, you know, Section 8 properties, invest into different businesses.

So that's kind of my philosophy right now.

I feel that.

Section 8's hot right now.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm in Cleveland, Ohio with Section 8 properties.

And it's not sexy money because how old are you?

27.

i'm 28 bro so we're young yeah so knowing that i'm gonna put 15 into a property and i'm only making a thousand a month doesn't really sound sexy you know it doesn't get me excited because we know how to make a thousand dollars a month a million other ways but i know that in as i keep doing it it's going to be good for me yeah by the time you're 40 50 yeah i'll have like i'll be making a hundred grand a month yeah because you get a hundred houses at a thousand a month i mean that's a hundred k a month yeah my partner the one i work with he's the one that put me on to the section a properties uh he has over 200 doors.

Damn.

So he makes 180 grand a month.

That's fire.

Forever, bro.

And it's passive.

Passive.

Somewhat passive, not 10.

He's 29.

He's 29, bro.

That's amazing.

Yeah, to have that cash flow at that age.

So that's the goal for me right now.

I have six doors right now.

Nice.

So you have to put down 15K.

Is that 20% of the house?

Well, you have to put up.

I do DSER, DSCR loans, so it's debt service coverage ratio.

So that means that as long as the rent can cover the mortgage, you could use it as many times as you want.

Wow.

So

typically you have to put 20% down.

Now, the houses that I'm buying are anywhere from like $55,000 to $90,000.

So it's pretty cheap.

The most I'm ever coming out of pocket is about $25,000.

Damn.

For a house, that's insane.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like my monthly payment right now.

Holy crap.

It's crazy because my mortgage, I had to pay my mortgage two days ago, and my mortgage was $400, bro.

Wow.

I was like, that's not a mortgage.

This is a bar tab.

That's a night out.

Holy crap.

Yeah, but that's a good mindset to have because it's not like sexy money, but it's kind of safe.

Yeah, it's not the big check,

but it's the forever check.

That's what I tell people to think about it as, right?

There's the big check and there's the forever check.

And sometimes when we're still young, we get caught up into the big check, bro.

It's easy to compare yourself to social media.

You want to chase that big bag.

I'm always trying to chase the big check, bro.

That I had to take a step back and realize, all right, while I'm chasing the big check, I got to put my money towards the forever check, you know?

Absolutely.

How do you network out here?

I know you host events.

I love doing events, bro the

networking i think is and i'm sure you agree bro you never know who you're gonna meet yeah right like i met christiana hurt through um networking with my boy orlando

and through the through her i ended up doing you know doing business with you a few years ago yeah and uh now we're here you know what i'm saying so it's like one conversation could really take you to the next level so i personally network by hosting events i love creating a an environment where there's winners around You know what I'm saying?

Where people are talking about money because a lot of people can't get that where they're at.

So people fly in for that.

You know what I'm saying?

But my biggest thing when it comes to networking, and I'm sure you probably would agree with me on it, is

I never try to talk about myself.

I kind of more so want to know what the other person has going on.

Because the more I know what you have going on and what this person has going on, the more I can connect pieces.

You know what I'm saying?

And that's how I've always made my money.

I consider myself like a professional piece connector, dot connector.

No, that's how I make my money.

Dan Fleischman, too.

I learned that from him.

And you wouldn't know how to connect,

you wouldn't know what dots to connect unless you're asking people what they got going on, what their problems are.

Yeah.

Because you're like, okay, cool, this person has this problem.

I know this guy who had the solution because I asked.

Not because they just stood there talking to me and listening to me the whole time.

It's because I was listening to them the whole time.

So now I know what to do.

No, it reminds me of this guest I had on yesterday.

Do you know George Storitsev?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

So he's come on and that's what he's doing.

So he's had a thousand consultation calls with people doing 25K a month plus.

So his network after four years of doing that's just insane.

Wow.

So he could piece anything you want.

That's amazing.

That's that's smart.

No, it's smart as fuck.

But think about that in five, 10 years because those kids will all be doing 100K a month,

a lot of them by then.

100%.

And it's crazy you say that because I started doing events in 2018.

And at this point, I didn't really have a big brand.

Like my business was going good, but my brand wasn't really there.

So I would only get like 25 people, 30 people to show up.

You know, fast forward to 2021, I've had events with 800 people show up.

Yeah.

But it's crazy.

A lot of the people that I did business with in 2018, they were basically kids at the time, like 21, 20 years old, are all rich as fuck now, bro.

No, for real.

And like, so you're right.

Looking at it like long term, five years from now, these are all guys.

Some of them make way more money than I do.

Yeah.

But they remember me as a person who like told them in the beginning and all that.

So it's.

People won't forget that.

That's what you make for them.

They'll always remember.

Yeah.

So it's dope that you say that because we sometimes we think about now and the effect that we're having on people now but if you think five years from now bro imagine all the people that you had conversations with behind these cameras where they're going to be at you have to man and i get a lot of heat because i lose money on my events actually i host events and uh people are like why are you doing that like i get the venue i i don't charge for tickets but dude i'm playing the long game i just did a free event here um

about a month ago same thing i didn't charge anything and everybody at the event was like do this is a dope event bro amazing venue why Why didn't you charge for this?

What they don't realize is that my ROI is going to come.

Not now, but my ROI does come, bro.

Relationships have the best investment.

Oh, for sure.

I invest so much money in relationships.

When I'm flying, like wherever I'm going, I'm texting people the whole flight.

Amazing, bro.

I'm rekindling relationships.

A lot of people never follow up on contacts they get.

Facts.

You know?

That's smart.

That's smart.

And that's why you're in the position you're at, bro.

That's why I was able to film 850 episodes without paying a single guest.

Wow.

A lot of shows.

Yeah.

A lot of shows pay their big guests to come on but since i've built relationships i don't need to ever do that that's amazing bro yeah i got a um i had a show back in 2020 it was uh better way with jay monopoly we ended up being top like 20 business podcasts then i kind of let it go like

kind of you got it on your back baby yeah so i've been i've been shooting a bunch of episodes right now and i got the same thing i got a bunch of pretty big guests on i have never paid it for any of them And it goes back to the whole relationship thing, you know?

Exactly.

Same thing with events.

Like if you want speakers, most people pay, but you probably don't pay your speakers, right?

I paid one speaker.

I paid one speaker one time, and it was because it was because he already had another event booked.

Oh, okay.

I was like, nah, bro.

Come to mind.

But in general, they're your friends or connections you make.

Yeah, 100%, bro.

100%.

Saves you a ton of money because speakers charge a lot, dude.

Yeah, bro.

I know speakers that just do it for a living.

They're making like five mil a year.

When's your next event?

It's in, so there's a UFC at the sphere in September.

I'm doing it the day before that because I know a lot of people are flying into town.

So I always always host my events during or before, right before, after a big event.

That makes sense.

That makes sense.

So I could get 300 people in any city, any major city.

You should do an event in Miami, bro.

I've done two.

There's always a big event going on over here.

Yeah, I've done one in Miami.

How was that?

Good.

Yeah, 300 people.

Amazing.

Yeah, it was during Miami Bitcoin Week, I think.

Oh, yeah.

So there's a lot of crypto nerds and shit.

There's so many events in Miami that it's hard to plan around the whole time.

I'm down sometimes.

It's tough.

We should do one together.

I'm down, bro.

Next time I'm here, we'll we'll plan one out.

No, 100% down.

I never get less than 300 people in a room as well.

So we'll probably get like 600, 700 people.

Yeah, at least 500, probably with our networks.

And I got the plug for the venues now.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, let's rock that.

I figured, I figured it out.

Where do you do your venues at?

So

I do what Flashman does.

He taught me this.

So I don't pay for venues.

I get them on an off-night.

What do you usually do?

Like Thursday nights.

Nice.

Yeah.

And you usually do

like a bar or a bar, stuff like that.

Or like somewhere, a lounge.

So I got these.

I basically do the kind of the same thing, but there's a lot of clubs out here in Miami that don't open until midnight.

Like they open at midnight.

So I did my event on Saturday.

It's like still a hot day.

Yeah.

But the club doesn't open till midnight.

So I had it from two to eight.

Wow.

That's smart.

Yeah.

And you just did like a cash bar?

A cash bar.

Yeah, that's what I do.

They have to spend like three to five K, which we clear every time.

Yeah.

So it was, and it was a beautiful venue right in the middle of Wynne Wood, bro.

It was, it was, it was amazing.

Damn.

And like, now I realize, I'm like, damn, a lot of these clubs in Miami, especially like Wynwood and stuff like that, they don't open until midnight.

So they're losing money the entire day.

And they'll just, they will.

Wow.

Yeah, that's smart.

Yeah, Miami, you guys are up late out here, dude.

Bro, it's a problem.

I don't know how you guys do that shit.

It takes discipline to live here, man.

I'll tell you that much.

When I first moved here,

you got lost in the sun.

I did for a few months, man, because I was making a shitload of money on crypto.

The clubs were digging crypto, but uh, I've never been in a city where there's something to do every single day of the week.

I'm sure you've seen it before.

Like, in Miami, it could be Wednesday night, and someone would be like, Hey, bro, we're out.

We're out to a yacht Wednesday night.

Yeah, that's normal out here.

Yeah, I was kind of yacht yesterday.

What was oh, yesterday was a weekend, but no, that's normal.

I get invited to shit on Tuesdays out here.

It's nuts, man.

And it's like, what the hell?

Where I grew up in Jersey, you only went out weekends and went to the city or something.

Where did you get the idea for

the podcast?

I sold my crypto marketing agency and I went through that weird phase every entrepreneur goes through when they sell a company of like, what's my purpose?

Yeah, what do I do?

It's like a weird thing.

Like you got all this money, you could retire.

So you're like, what do I do now?

And then I started this just interviewing friends and it turned into a podcast.

Nice.

Yeah.

I love the branding, the branding behind it.

Always got a brand, man.

Yeah, that's why I got these.

Because people.

Branding is the most important part, man.

People, people, no, dude.

You need it.

Because people rip the clips.

And then if you don't have any branding, no one knows it's your show.

Like, so many people reposted our Sneeko interview, got like 50 million views.

And since we had these, like, I got that recognition from it.

It's crazy because I'm always talking about branding and the power of branding.

Um, and I always tell people, like, if you have, so if you have great marketing, if you let's say you had great marketing, you don't need a great sales guy, right?

Because the marketing takes care of a lot of it.

But if you have great branding, you don't even need great marketing.

Right.

Elon Musk.

They canceled each other out.

Yeah, bro.

So branding is everything, man.

Liver King.

There's a few good examples of just really good branding.

Yeah, bro.

It's so important.

That's why I was really impressed with

the way you did it.

No, thank you, dude.

You got to stand out, especially in the podcast space.

There's fucking 10 million podcasts.

Yeah, yeah, it's way different than it was once upon a time.

Yeah, if you kept yours going, you'd be like top five by now.

How long you been doing this for?

Year and a half.

Well, I made up for that short time with volume.

I'm going to pull up on you in Vegas, bro, to shoot a podcast.

Yeah, let's do it, man.

Yeah, I feel 15 a week in Vegas.

Damn.

Oh, you stayed busy, huh?

You'd stay busy out here if you were committed to it.

Yeah, I'm trying to get an office.

That's my next thing.

I'm getting an office so that I could just record every day.

Yeah, film here in the meantime, dude.

I know, bro.

This is beautiful.

Yeah, we got the view.

We run poker games once a week.

I got to plug in with them.

I'm definitely going to lock in with this spot, man.

Yeah, dude.

Who's your squad out here?

Who do you hang out with?

Honestly, bro.

I don't really hang out with anybody, but I know a lot of people out here, though, bro.

I know damn near everybody, bro.

Shinkle spoke highly of you.

Yeah, yeah.

Shinkle's my dog.

I like Shingle, man i've known him since 2018 damn uh i met him in in arizona one and when he was out there uh i you i host a toy drive every year oh nice i do a toy drive for christmas every year turkey drive for for uh thanksgiving like i'm big on giving back and i've known shinkle for a long time but i've really had a lot of respect for him because he came out to my my toy drive in new york this dude's not even from new york you know so he came to support me supporting my neighborhood in new york wow and we ended up donating like over like twelve $12,000 toys

to a church.

And then the church was helping us give them out to the neighborhood.

We were in the middle of the hood, bro.

We're in the middle of the trenches, bro.

Shingle was there.

That's where you grew up?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wow.

So you had humble beginnings.

Yeah, I'm from originally from Jamaica, Queens.

Damn.

Yeah, that's the hood hood.

So we was, uh, we were there, and Shingo was there.

He stuck out like a sore thumb, bro.

He was, he was cold.

He was cold as hell.

I stuck out on the yacht yesterday.

I was the only white guy there.

Bro, you were like six five?

Yeah, I was the tallest and the only white guy.

You used to play ball, right?

High high ball yeah so i could blend in with everyone because i mean they if they see me they don't think i'm good but i'm decent yeah yeah i was balling yesterday i'm not as good as you though

what's your game man i suck bro i'm i just i'm a i'm a you you get me behind the free throw line i hit from there bro mid-range yeah

you're a sniper yeah i'm a i'm a post-up i get blocks you told me you're a tall dude bro 6'6 gotta take advantage of it man damn i didn't know you grew up there though that's that's pretty crazy yeah yeah bro i grew up um man i ain't gonna lie.

Like, I come from a great family, bro.

I come from a great household.

That's my brother, actually.

That's my older brother.

I came from a great family, bro.

But me and my brother grew up just doing dumb shit, bro, getting in trouble.

I went to five different high schools.

I got kicked out of all the high schools I went to.

For what?

Fights?

Fights, bro.

It's dumb stuff like that.

I get arrested.

Yeah.

My mom actually, after my freshman year, she was so fed up with my shit.

She sent me to live in Ecuador for six months, bro.

So I lived in the third world country for six months.

Like, that's how bad I was.

And honestly, what really changed my life was joining the military.

And like, I don't recommend it for everybody, but there's a lot of people out there.

There's a lot of kids who are out there who are lost and they have nothing going on.

For people like that, I definitely recommend it because for me, I didn't have anything going on, anything good going on.

I had a lot of bad shit going on.

But for me, what it actually did was it opened the doors.

for me to have a skill set, right?

I learned how to fix helicopters in the military.

I got out when I was 21 and have, I could have got a job at Boeing making $160,000 a year as a 21-year-old.

Wow.

I didn't.

I ended up going the entrepreneur route right before I got out.

So I was making way more than that.

But for like the average person, right, who has nothing going on,

if you could find something that's going to pay you to learn the skill set to win-win.

You know what I'm saying?

I don't recommend it to everybody, but people out there who are lost, got nothing going on, you're probably going to get to jail if you don't get your shit together.

The military is where it's at.

Yeah, for your situation, that makes sense.

I had a good time too, bro.

Like, I got to visit a bunch of countries, bro.

When you travel, you really learn a lot, too.

Yeah, bro.

Traveling is

the biggest life hack, bro.

You learn so much about yourself.

So much perspective.

You learn a lot about yourself.

And I always tell people that are dating someone to travel with them because you learn a lot about your partner.

100%.

A lot, dude.

It's gone.

bad for me sometimes.

Yeah.

In a good way, right?

Same.

Same.

Same here.

Because you can't hide it when you're sleeping in the same room.

Yeah, bro.

You know,

that's what the relationship parts are tricky, right?

Because it says uh

you don't want to move in fast with somebody right yeah so you have to be able to figure out how they act when they're with you for a long period of time that's what traveling does right because now you're locked in y'all playing house for like a week yeah

i heard it's tough dating out here because uh materialism i think it's tough dating in general right now you know what i'm saying i think it's tough dating in general right now um and i think it's because most women have a higher view of themselves than they should be right and it's because it's the same reason

it's It's the same reason there's so many, and this is why it'd be crazy if they didn't say, bro, it's the same reason there's so many confident fat women, bro.

You know why?

You know why so many confident fat women, bro?

Because there's a lot of guys that fucked them quietly on the low.

You're not wrong.

You know what?

We both have a homeboy out there that we know takes down some big girls.

Yeah, yeah.

But in public, he would never say that, right?

So now when a big girl comes up to you and they're trying to flirt and stuff and you say no, they think like, oh yeah, she's lying.

Like, like the other dude was, right?

But, but it's the same thing with social media, right?

There's some, some girls who might not be tense, bro, but they have celebrities in their DMs and all that.

So then the average dude isn't able to like really stand out.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

Especially in major cities where it matters more.

Especially in major cities.

Yeah.

So I've only ever lived in major cities.

Yeah, so you're dealing with that.

I've never lived in a small town.

You got to try a girl like not from the U.S., bro.

That's what I've heard, bro.

That's what I've heard.

I've heard that too.

When I lived in Japan, bro, I I had a

little nice Japanese girl.

I had a nice little Japanese girl over there, bro.

But the culture is so different over there, bro.

The culture's so different.

Yeah, they're very disciplined, right?

Yeah, yeah.

And the women just love you so much over there for doing absolutely nothing.

Yeah, I don't know if I'd like that.

I want to earn that love.

Bro, it's crazy.

I actually, it's a crazy story.

I was staying out in town because I was stationed over there.

That was when I was in the military.

I was staying out in town.

And I had this Japanese girl.

I would stay in her house from time to time.

And she would cook for me in the mornings.

One day I woke up late, so I ran out the house quick.

I came back during my lunch break.

She was crying.

She's crying.

She said, You don't love me anymore.

You didn't let me make you make breakfast this morning.

Whoa.

It's that deep.

I was like, oh, shit,

I've never felt like this before.

Holy crap.

So they give everything for the man out there, bro.

Damn.

Yeah, I guess certain guys like that.

But no, I like to be just mutually respectful.

And, you know.

Yeah, I think that's the most important thing in a relationship is respect.

Yeah.

Everybody says love or trust, but it's respect because if you respect someone you wouldn't really do anything to hurt their trust or anything like that you know absolutely but you i mean you know more than me brian i'm i'm you're the one that's no the trust is important for sure and a lot of people have trust issues these days because of cheating i guess i don't know yeah i mean we live in a different time bro our grandparents didn't have or even our parents like didn't have access to social media social media every time i go on my ig it's like a half-naked girl i'm like what the fuck yeah and worse for twitter bro if you go to twitter you see literal porn, bro.

I'm literally strolling next to my girl.

She's like, Why are you like,

Yeah, why do you, why do you

like the photos?

Like, they're just pushing it, you know.

I feel that.

No, 100%, bro.

It's weird.

Yeah, we live in an interesting time, bro.

Yeah, it's desensitizing kids.

100%.

Porn's really bad right now, too.

I think that's one of the worst things, bro.

And I don't think a lot of people talk about it, but porn's terrible for you, bro.

I'm not a fan of it.

I, I'm,

it's the more I looked into it, right?

When I when I was doing the my research on that, how it increases gray matter in your brain, it makes you lazy.

It's it's crazy.

And then you see,

you know, they say if the, if the, if the product is free, it's because you are the product.

You ever heard of that?

Wow.

No, I haven't, but that's deep.

So it's like, why are all these porn sites free, bro?

Because we are the product, bro.

Holy crap.

Yeah, if it's free, you're the product.

That's a good point.

There's always a price in one way or another.

Yeah, bro.

Ain't nothing for free, for real.

So it's like, damn, what are we giving up for all this free fucking shit that we're seeing?

It's crazy to think about, man.

That's maths.

Are you just grinding non-stop still?

Yeah, bro.

I go through these phases.

I'm sure you do too.

All the time.

I've gotten better now that I want to have kids soon and I'm kind of preparing for that because that's a full-time job.

100%.

So

I got one on the way, actually.

Oh, congrats.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you.

I'm having one in January.

That's awesome.

Yeah, that's 40 hours a week right there, though.

I know.

But

I go through my ups and downs like with everybody, bro, because, and I think you have to.

I I think to get to a certain level if you want to be great if greatness is your goal um I don't think there's a such thing as overall balance right but I think there's not overall balance you're not gonna be balanced day to day yeah you'll be that balanced by season my feeling right like if you have a lot of work on right now with this podcast to take it to the next level you're not gonna be hitting the gym as hard as you usually do yep you know your relationship's gonna go to the side a little bit but if you were to balance out every day with i'm working on this for four hours this for four hours this for four hours you wouldn't get to that no it wouldn't go fast you know what i'm saying podcast wouldn't be as big exactly bro so it's like yes i believe in balance but like it has its time and its place yeah it's important to communicate that in advance so like before i started the show i told my fiancé i'm like babe this is gonna require a lot of work at the time i was taking weekends off and and weekday nights and i was like those might that might need to change a bit And she understood it.

You know what I mean?

But I told her in advance that that would happen the first probably three years while I grow grow this thing.

Yeah, so that's where I'm at right now, bro.

I'm back in grind mode, bro.

Like, I took it easy for a little bit.

Yeah, especially with a kid on the way.

Now you got to grind even harder.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's going to be hard.

I mean, I've never done it before, right?

Yeah.

No, kids ain't cheap, dude.

I know a lot of friends of mine struggling right now.

So you say you're looking to have some kids soon?

I want kids.

Probably around 30, maybe two, three years.

Oh, that's what's up, bro.

I want to travel more in my 20s because I've been to like 15 countries, but I want to hit more.

Yeah, I traveled a lot, bro.

I've been to like 30-plus countries, bro.

I've lived in different countries.

Yeah, we got a cruise next week out of Miami.

Oh, for real?

Yeah, Virgin.

Nice.

Have you been on those yet living out here?

Bro, I've never been on a cruise, bro.

You live in Miami?

I've never been on a cruise.

I've never been on a cruise, bro.

Everybody always tells me that.

I don't know.

I've just never, it's never interested me, bro.

Dude.

So when I was in the military,

for six months, I lived on a boat.

And it's the worst experience ever.

Okay.

And ever since then, I told myself.

I'm never going on another fucking boat again.

Was it that bad?

Bro, it was terrible.

And I know it's different.

Obviously, it's completely different, but I don't know.

Maybe it's just that psychological, yeah.

Psychologically, I just want a cruise, you get off, yeah.

The boat is cool, though.

The military, bro.

So, it's you're basically in jail for a whole month, bro, right?

Don't contact with the outside world, nothing.

Wow, and then after a month, they stop at a country you've never been to before, and they're like, Hey, man, come back in four days, have fun.

What?

Yeah, were you in the Navy?

No, no, no, I was in the Marine Corps.

Oh, but we were, we would go on Navy ships.

So, I remember my first, my first stop, it was like after a month, bro.

I'd never been on a on a deployment before so i didn't know what to expect so i was bored as hell man didn't download any movies had no music i would just work out like crazy and then one day we just wake up and they're like hey man we're in australia uh come back in four days i was like what bro it's nuts

they could give you a hotel or something nah you like pay for everything because you're getting paid the whole time yeah you're getting paid the whole time and then you just

the stories that people have for deployments are nuts bro because imagine you're caged up you haven't seen any women you haven't had any drinks, you haven't had good food for a whole month, and then they just take you to a random country.

Damn, bro.

Yeah, so you had solitary confinement, basically.

I had my share of fun in other countries, bro.

Holy crap.

Any other vivid memories from being in the Marines?

The traveling, bro.

The traveling is crazy.

I got some stories for David when it comes to the different countries, man.

We've done some shit, man.

Yeah.

We've done some shit.

Damn.

Australia is fun, though, bro.

Really?

Australia is crazy.

When

we were, I remember when we got to Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia, the

boats pull up to the harbor, right?

And then there was a bunch of women out there.

Really?

Like, kind of waiting for us to come out.

And when we came out, they had like

these like party flyers.

They said, come party with American Marines.

Like, we were the attraction once.

And in the back, they would like put their Instagrams and stuff.

So it was like, no way.

Like there's a bunch of party flyers, bro.

I've never felt more rich in my life being broke.

And it's crazy because Australia, women outnumber men

in Australia.

And us being in the military, it was nuts, bro.

I never felt more like a celebrity in my life.

I would go to the bar and women would buy you drinks over there.

No.

I swear, bro.

It was nuts.

I had never experienced something like that before.

That is nuts.

Like, the girls were coming up to us.

I was like, oh, they would buy you a drink trying to take us home, bro.

Like, that's crazy.

That's like a parallel universe.

Bro, it was, it was nuts.

And I went to three different places in Australia.

I went to Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.

And it was like that in all of those places.

It was Australian girls, man.

And it's crazy because you think Australia, well, I don't know.

I thought Australia was kind of like

I've only heard of Australia, the movies.

I'm thinking desert, kangaroos, and shit.

Bro, Sydney's like New York City, bro.

Really?

Sydney, Australia looks exactly like New York City.

Holy crap.

I wonder why there's so many girls.

The ratios off over there.

Yeah, bro.

It's nuts.

Must be something in the water.

You should go out there.

I've been to Melbourne and Sydney.

I went in the summer and my face got fried off.

Fucking hot over there.

Did you enjoy it?

Yeah, it was fun.

Yeah, I ate a kangaroo, actually.

It was meat took a lot of fun.

Your kangaroo was pretty good.

Kangaroo was pretty good.

Dude, I'm not going to lie.

I would eat it again.

Yeah, I actually was going out of my way to find a place that had a kangaroo.

Because I was like, oh, I'm in Australia.

I felt bad because I pet one right before at the zoo.

Oh, man, that's terrible.

Yeah.

But they outnumber humans there, so you got to justify with logic yeah they australians hate kangaroos they hate them yeah like we think they're like oh look australia kangaroo but no australians actually hate kangaroos bro apparently they're like rodents to like huge rodents i know i was trying to square up with one i was trying to find one on the street it was crazy there's actually um so obviously when we went because it was the military there's so many rules of things that we can't do but there was like a spot that i saw that it said uh you can actually pay to box a kangaroo bro yeah it was in Brisbane.

That's cool.

But we weren't allowed to do it.

Marines.

Your people

knocked them out.

But I was like, damn, I really want to do it.

I'm going to go back.

There's a lot of places that I visited in the military that I go back to see as a civilian.

Really?

To make sure that it was still, that it was actually that good.

Where have you gone back to?

So I lived in Okinawa, Japan, which is like an island off of Japan.

They don't actually consider themselves Japanese.

They consider themselves Okinawan, right?

That's a blue zone, right?

Yeah.

People live long there.

So it's like

Okinawa is like the

Puerto Rico for Japan.

You know what I'm saying?

It's technically the U.S., but not really.

And I had a great time there when I was in the military.

But then when I got out, I was like, was it really that fun?

Or was it just because I had nothing to do?

So I went back in 2020 and it was even more fun.

Wow.

Because you had money now.

Yeah, because I had money.

And there was a lot of spots in Okinawa, Japan, whereas Marines, we weren't able to go.

Like, there was this place called Naha.

We were never able to go there past, I think, 8 p.m so as a what is that a bar no naha'l like a whole city oh it's a whole city that we weren't allowed to be in after a certain time and then i went there um so i think 2020 right before the pandemic i went there and uh i saw why we weren't able to go there bro it was terp man it was crazy there's a all the cruise lines stopped there oh so a bunch of like people from all different countries are there.

It's nuts, bro.

Yeah, they party till like six in the morning.

See why the the U.S.

military didn't want us here.

Makes a lot of sense.

Those Japanese people will be partying.

Yeah, bro.

I didn't know that.

Yo, they drink, drink, bro.

Holy.

Oh, sake, right?

Yeah, they drink.

I drink sake, actually.

They drink crazy over there, bro.

I'm a fan of sake.

I don't drink anymore, though.

You don't drink at all?

No, do you?

I've been cutting down on it, but yeah, I still from time to time.

I don't get drunk, though.

Like, you won't see me drunk in public.

No, never.

You won't see me drunk in public.

And I was known for that in high school and college.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was bad.

And I'll have a drink at dinner or something like that, but I don't get drunk in public.

No, no.

It's not worth it.

No.

You get fucked the next day not only that bro but like you

you people like

people perceive us a certain kind of way you know what i'm saying yeah so imagine like people watch your show and they think it's super dope and you're dope guest i mean dope host and then they see you drunk in the street the person the perception is forever broken now you know what i'm saying this guy's a fucking degenerate oh that's a good point yeah who knows who's filming what these days facts bro dude it's been fun uh what are you working on next and where can we find you oh honestly bro i'm gonna these events, bro.

I'm kicking it up, bro.

Um, so it's dope.

We should definitely do one out here in Miami, sure.

But I want to do events in different cities, kind of see what the research is.

We'll do Vegas together, too.

Yeah, yeah.

So, I want to do events in a bunch of different cities, man.

Um, that's what's next for me.

Uh, doing these events, all gonna be free, re-events, all different cities.

Um, podcast coming back soon.

Let's go.

Stay tuned for that one, bro.

It's gonna be some good episodes.

And then, um, you know, for me, you can find me on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, all the same thing.

J Monopoly, J-A-Y, Totmonopoly.

Love that name.

We'll link it below, man.

Thanks for coming on.

Yo, Sean, appreciate you, my brother.